MILITARY TRAINING

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12406, 27 March 1926, Page 4

MILITARY TRAINING

APPRENTICES AND OTHERS PAYMENT? OF WAGES. A question having arisen as to the payment of wages to apprentices and other employees during the period they are undergoing military training, the matter was referred to the Department of Labour. Mr R. T. Bailey, offioer in charge, forwards a copy of the section of the Act applicable to such cases! The clause reads as under:— “Employers of those compelled to undergo military training in the daytime must liberate their employees, and in the case of apprentices and other employees who, are entitled to their wages weekly or otherwise without deduction for loss of time jnust pay their wages in the usual way, unless, of course, the contrary is provided for in tho contracts of apprenticeship or service. “It should he noted that the employers are compelled to give leave only when the trainees are compelled to absent themselves from work to attend a camp. “Note.—Also that section 67 of the’ Defence Amendmteit Aot 1912 provides that employment shall not _he terminated by reason of the requirements of the Act respecting - training. In the case of hourly or daily Workers an employer need pay only for actual time worked.”